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To: Anders Norlander <anorland@hem2.passagen.se>
cc: Paul Sokolovsky <paul-ml@is.lg.ua>, James Stern <jsternitg@yahoo.com>,
        cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Importing a variable from a DLL 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 26 Aug 1999 13:46:40 +0200."
             <37C52920.CC9AFD3F@hem2.passagen.se> 
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 08:51:46 -0500
From: Mumit Khan <khan@xraylith.wisc.EDU>

Anders Norlander <anorland@hem2.passagen.se> writes:
> 
> You *can* do this:
> tag imported data with DATA in the .DEF file and dlltool will not
> generate a stub function.
> For example:
> EXPORTS
> foo	DATA
> 
> will generate ___imp__foo and __imp__foo symbols.
> 
> Without DATA dlltool generates ___imp__foo, __imp__foo, and _foo
> symbols.
> 

Thanks Anders. I completely forgot that Ian Taylor implemented the DATA
tag last year!

However, the problem of tracking the usages in various headers and marking
them correctly remains the major problem. I remember trying to create DLLs 
for Octave, and ran into tons of problems that I just didn't have the 
patience to fix.

Regards,
Mumit


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